The church of SMaria antiqua . posite side of the road, in a field, a large white marble cornice,which still lies there, was recently found. The breadth of the block is (notincluding the cornice) 62 cm., its present length (part was broken off inattempting to lift it) 1 36 m. The depth of the cornice at the top is31 cm. Further (almost due S. of the twelfth kilometre stone) is a large Classical Topography of the Roman Campagna.—I. 171 piscina, single chambered, of selce concrete, without buttresses, which,owing to the strength of the selce concrete, are not required, but with itswalls bec
The church of SMaria antiqua . posite side of the road, in a field, a large white marble cornice,which still lies there, was recently found. The breadth of the block is (notincluding the cornice) 62 cm., its present length (part was broken off inattempting to lift it) 1 36 m. The depth of the cornice at the top is31 cm. Further (almost due S. of the twelfth kilometre stone) is a large Classical Topography of the Roman Campagna.—I. 171 piscina, single chambered, of selce concrete, without buttresses, which,owing to the strength of the selce concrete, are not required, but with itswalls becoming slightly thinner after about six feet above ground. To the S. of this are remains of a villa rustica in opus quadratum oftufa ; in one place is a floor, for a wine or oil press perhaps, formed of threeblocks of tufa placed side by side, with a slightly raised edge round them. The excavations made by NiccolaTa Piccola in 1775 in the Tenuta diSalone, quarto di Prato Bagnato, on the right of the road, resulted in the dis-. Fig. 4.—Ponte di Nona, N. Side. covery of the Aphrodite of the Gabinetto delle Maschere in the Vatican(Visconti, Mus. Pio. Clem. i. 10, Helbig, Fuhrer, i. no. 258) and of the fol-lowing inscriptions, vi. 325, 1607, 8972, (Btill. Inst. 1853, p. 49), before the twelfth kilometre stone stands the eighth mile-stone of the modern road, erected by Innocent XIII. This correspondsfairly exactly to the ninth mile of the ancient road : the bridge over theravine just beyond is therefore called Ponte di Nona. It is by far thefinest road bridge in the neighbourhood of Rome. Rossini (Antic/iilaRomane, vol. ii.) gives a very fine view of the north side, which is alsoshown in Fig. 4. Canina (Edifisi, v. 90, vi. tav. 108) gives plans from 172 The British School at Rome. measurements taken when it was restored under his own direction. Seealso Nibby, Analisi, ii. 590. The total length is about 72 m., the greatestheight 16 m. There are seven arches, each
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